Taking Enterprise Reporting Services to the Next Level Through Integrated Automation
Description:
General Mills has created an impressive Reporting Services operation as part of their Enterprise Business Services organization. This group provides reporting and analysis services to a variety of key areas of the company, including Marketing and Finance.
During this Peercast, they will share their experiences in improving and enhancing this reporting center of excellence through a focus on integrated automation, including a look at the tools they use and their level of satisfaction with them to this point.
Peercast Poll Results
Poll Title: Taking Enterprise Reporting Services to the Next Level in Shared Services
Background: Some companies have moved to including Reporting Services as a part of Enterprise Business Services, providing reporting and analysis to a variety of key functional areas within the company. This poll looks at how widespread this trend is and challenges in consolidating Reporting Services.
Poll Question: What is the status at your company of consolidating Reporting Services into a center of excellence to deliver value to across multiple functional areas, such as Finance, Marketing, R&D, etc.?
| Implemented with 2-3 functional areas | 12% | |
| Implemented with greater than 3 functional areas | 29% | |
| Approved, not yet implemented | 12% | |
| Evaluating, not yet decided | 18% | |
| Evaluated, decided no | 0% | |
| Not evaluated | 24% | |
| Tried, not successful | 0% | |
| Reporting services is in a center of excellence, but only services one function (Finance, HR, etc.) | 6% |
Poll Question: What would you consider to be the primary challenge in consolidating Reporting Services to service multiple functional areas?
| Political issues - functional managers want to maintain ownership | 41% | |
| Staff issues - difficult to acquire talent with the breadth of knowledge | 0% | |
| Lacking executive support / sponsorship | 12% | |
| Systems issues - inconsistencies across functional and geographic areas | 29% | |
| Other technology issues | 0% | |
| Other (Please Comment) | 18% |